... THE Weather AND THE CROPS.—A gentleman who has been travelling in Gloucestershire, Somerset, and Monmouth- shire, speaks most encouragingly of the hay crops. Mowing has begun in many places, and the grass falls heavdr III many plac ...

... The usual weekly meeting of this Board was held on Saturday last at the Board Room of the Union Work- house, E. W. David, Esq., chairman, presiding. After the usual minutes of the preceding meeting had been read by Mr. Stephenson the recently appointed Clerk of the Board, The Chairman stated that he had received a com- munication from Miss Jenner, complaining of a nuisance at Wenvoe which she ...

... Lord Vane will shortly proceed to St. Petersburg to invest the Emperor of Russia with the Order of the Garter. DEATH OF THE ARCHDEACON OF CARLISLE.— The Venerable Archdeacon of Carlisle expired on Satur- day evening last, at half-past six, after a long illness. The late archdeacon was formerly one of the assistant masters at Harrow, and until his promotion to the archdeaconry of Carlisle was ...

... The Public Ledger is in many ways one of the most remarkable and successful papers in America, and was first issued in 1838. It was started by three working printers, who gathered together all the money they had in the world, and found they had barely §5,000 to devote to the enterprise. It was an experiment, for they were without influential friends or support, and started their paper as a ...

... To the Editor of Sg man's Monthly Meteorological Magazine. SIR,-J ust before your notice of Col. Capper's book Oil Meteorology, I had perused that woik, ail copie out the rainfall table to send to you. That table is not to be relied on as an accurate account of the rainfall in this district, the true quantity being very nearly double the colonel's measurement. There is no reason to suppose ...

... Jitteltir^m;?, LLANDAFF CATHEDRAL SERVICES. June 23rd.-SUNDAY. Morning Prayer. Venite—61. Daily Psalms—125. Te Deum—1, 3. Jubilate-139. Hymn—150. Kyrie—Nares in F. Hymn—135. Afternoon service at half-past three. Daily Psalms—127. Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis- Nares in F. Anthem-In Jewry is God known, Clarke. Hymn—136. Litany and Sermon at o clock in the evening. Hymns 189, 200, 10. June ...

... MONDAY.—(Before R. O. Jones, W. Alexander, and W. D Bushel), Esqrs.) ALLEGED ASSAULT.—Mr. Phillip Bird, wine-merchant, &c., of Bute-road, was charge(1 with an assault un Mr. Harry Couch, Canvasser for the Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian. Mr. Thomas Stephens appeared for the defence, complainant conducting his own case. It appcareù that complainant went on Tuesday morning bst to the house of tile ...

... Further correspondence appeared in the London journals on Monday morning between the Bishop of Salisbury and his recalcitrant clergy on the subject of his lordship's recent charge. The Bishop, having re- ceived an indignant protest against the doctrines asserted by him, replies that, having asked for a patient and dutiful consideration of his views, he did not expect that they would have been ...

... An inquiry has been held in London by Dr. Lan- kester at University College Hospital, relative to the death of Florence Lennox, aged nine, while under the influence of chloroform, administered for the purpose of performing an operation on the eye for the cure of squinting. Sarah Lennox, widow of a gardener, of Burling-on-tlie-IIill, Okeham, Rutlandshire, identified the body of her daughter, ...

... It will be seen from our Parliamentary intelligence that the Government have decided to recommend her Majesty to commute the sentence upon Burke, the Fenian, whose execution was fixed for last Wednesday, the 29th. Public feeling was being strongly manifested in favour of this step not only in Ireland, but in Lon- don and the provinces. A large annual gathering of Quakers from all parts of the ...

... RITUALISM. The following reply from his Grace the Archbishop of York has been received in answer to a memorial, adopted and numerously signed at a public meeting recently held at Birkenhead, by lay members of the Church of England, to protest against the practices and innovations of the Ritualists :— (Copy.) Bishopthorpe, York, May 15. Gentlemen,—I have to thank you sincerely for the memo- ...

... AN AmttL SoMw.—A thumb-screw., CON. BY lb. CAUDM.—Why is a wife likely to bd come equestrian ?—Because she's always on the nag. A DISGUSTING FEAT.-The man who bolted the dooif with a boiled carrot has paid the penalty of his glut- tony. He is suffering from internal hinge-eries. Didn't you tell me yon could hold the plough? said a farmer to an Irishman he had taken on trial. How could I ...